i - tj"si i:Tu'''?ti- --.- , --. - rv,i'S.j .? - " " 'I i.m., umiffn MUST BELIEVE IT. - V - 3 1 Ivtd 3src.ft-;S3 fc&S&a - FlT-y-.V.-;?::-..-?- t-..--:::;.: D, (ar&&&rjffaz jr7zarj4ssoc&zz iSuiGiar.jz&csAzxas) SYNOPSIS. i . " - "X'tniiniiiiiK I"l-i." A story o "what migl.l have happened." opens In ! ington with the Unjtetl States and Japan on the verse of war.' Guy Hillier. soc jetarv of th Ilritish embassy, and MlM Norma Robert?, chief aide yj JntflT Roberts, are introduced ns lovers. Japan elares WHr and tal:r- the Philippines. Guv Uillicr starts for England. Norma KobfrtK wltli military olHccrs also leaves Wellington on mysterious expedition for liir Florida Mai-t. Hawaii is captured iy the Japs. All ports are closed. Tokyo l-:.rnc of missInK Japanese ileet and whole world become. convinced that Cr.iUfl State has pome powerful war apency. Kngl.-tnd di-cidcs to send a fleet to American waters as a Canadian pro teetion r.gaiiist what the British suppose is a terrible submarine flotilla, Hilller is also sent to Canada to attempt to foree his wav through American lines with a message. Rritish fleet departs amid mis givings of Knslish. Fleet mvs.teriously disappear. Tlilller makes a failure of ef foit to deliv.-r message to the president. War between Great Kritain and Germany is threatened. The kaisi - disappears. KiiiK Edward of England is confronted by Admiral Kevin. of the I'nit.-d States, and ur-nn promising to present the missins 1'ritish admiral, the monarch agrees to nci nmpany Bcvins on tour, which the lal tr sayn will uncover the agent f war und end all eontllcts. The Ureadnaught. biggest or England's warsiiips. is dis--overed at an impassable point in the Thames, much to the mystery of the kingdom. The story gees back to a time uianv months bofme tl.e war breaks out. uml Inventor Roberts isits tin president and eablnol. telling of and exhibiting a metal nroriiielioii. This overcomes frie- Imn when electrified and is to be applied to vessels to increase speed to over .V miles m hour. A city for the manufaetuie of I he mvslcrious discovery is built un on J he toast of Florida' and Norma Roberts arries oo scene. CHAPTER XV. The Great Discovery. From the shore came a dull, moan ing sound, now rising, now falling, but incessant, as if some gigantic animal, stricken and suffering, was shrieking he anguish of its death throes to the solitudes of the keys and the waste f waters roilnd them. The fright ened birds took flight to the north to escape the weird monotone, and the timid animals of th forest cowered in fear; but the men of the island looked at oue another exultantly, with mutual congratulations on the rapidity of their work. The blast furnace which was to cast the pistes was be ing blown in. Days and nights of unremitting toil had followed that first landing: ma chine tdiops had been completely in stalled, power plants perfected, and buildings for the men erected: addi tional supplies had been received; and another gunboat, the Columbia, augmented the patrol which passed ceaselessly round the keys, guarding their secret and warning inquisitvo fishermen to avoid the waters: corps of expert smelting men from the mines of the west had joined the colony and all for this, the casting of the first plate, which was (o take place this day. In the assay rooms there had been the constant testing of crude metals, and apportioning them and discarding those which were inferior. Trained hands were those that worked over the buckinu boards and manipulated the delicate scales which would register the tiniest mark of a lead pencil with as great accuracy as they would a pound weight. Everywhere about the plant were men who wrought with pre cision and interest, bound together in the great enterprise until differences in station we're forgotten aud all -were sis a" family praying for success. "Old Bill" Roberts, assisted by his daughter, had permitted no foot but theirs to enter the room where his ap paratus was installed, and no hand but fhciis to touch its complicated mechanism. With the love of a cre ator he had spent the last hours fondling its cold, unresponsive parts and adjusting it. and then stood and watched, as a mother watches her firstborn, the initial movements of the great masterpiece which was a mys tery to all the world but him and Norma. Engineers and officers from all parts of the plant, warned that the crucial test was at hand, gathered round the door of the innermost room, until in vited in by the inventor, and then slowly entered and found standing places at a safe distance from the in tricate mass, whose polished knobs, twisted bars and gleaming tubes teemed to them a tangled riddle. Norma, garbed in the stained khaki wrapper which she wore in the lab oratory at home, hovered here and there round the apparatus, lightly try ing an adjustment or closely inspect ing a joint, her face grave, calm, and solf-possessed. Her father, his thin old !ace drawn into a scowl of con centration, busied himself likewise. ::nd made the final connections. So cnrefnl was he that he even inspected the duplicate apparatus which stood as a reserve at th other end of a casting mold, but which it was not his intention to use except in case of emergency. Satisfied that all was in readiness, he beckoned to two assis sants. who trundled in the first com posite plate and deposited it in its bed. He made the connection with he electrodes in a few minutes deft work, and then straightened up and looked about the room, where all was still and expectant. The wondering engineers saw him wave his daughter back a short dis tance as though fearing for her safety, watched him take a final look over his appliance, and then throw a switch. 1'rilliant strcalcs of purple, of unknown reds an'i glaring whites, meed each other in cutek succession truwjsh he tubes, little indicators here :va there sparked oat nralevolently, and me ma chine seemed to leap, strain and throb with a life of its own. uncanny and mysterious because or its silence. The grenp of sec psertfl cmelsmij at 'M, z If l a-v fa t 11 "Gentlemen," She Said, '-the the plate, saw it glow a dull red, pass the cherry stage to a dull pigeon blue, and then suddenly burst into a gleaming mass of iridescent while. "Fusion!" one of the engineers whispered to a man beside him. "He has fused that plate in less time than it could be done by any means I ever heard of. That is the way he meta morphoses his metal." The rays died out, the apparatus stopped its quivering, and the inven tor with hands clasped behind him stood intently watching the now cool ing metal. Within the laboratory all was silence. From the adjoining buildings came the regular sound of hammers, and from somewhere off to ward the cabins a man's voice was raised in a song of soldiery. The sheet of metal lost its color and be came dark. "Old Bill" Roberts pressed a button alxve his head, and cooling sprays began dissipating them selves over the surface, sending up brief splutterings and clouds of rapid ly diminishing steam. "It's cool enough now to handle," he said in an oddly constrained tone of voice, turning to the engineers, "and if some of you wil! help mo carry it to the testing tank you may see met prove the first plate on which hangs the fate of our country." In an awed hush of expectancy they all volunteered: but only three men were needed to hold it while it was attached to the great arms which were to revolve it in the water and demon strate its resistance. The inventor threw a switch, and the sheet began to move. liefore him was a dial, and be neath it a scale of friction pulls showing the resistance offered by nor mal metal. He fastened his eyes on the indicator with a look of strained watchfulness. Slowly the needle point swung round as the arms gained the maximum of speed, and then it came to a standstill, while- a look of doubt and perplexity crept over the scientist's face. "Norm,' he called. huskily "Norm! Was everything all right? Is everything working true?" She took a step behind him, and with a look no less worried than, his own stared at the dials indicating the speed of revolution and the scale of resistance. "Yes, father." she re plied, gently, "everything is all right." She put her arm over his shoulder as if to shield him. "Hut something must have gone wrong somewhere else. Come away now and let us think it over." She -turned to the waiting officers behind and looked them calmly in their faces, while the inventor, dazed and uncomprehending, ran his fingers through his shock of white hair and gazed at the telltale dials as if hyp notized by two staling eyes. 'Gentlemen." she said, "the first ex periment is a failure!" Those among them who had been slightly skeptical smile:! at one an other, while these whose belief had been more firm looked sympathetical ly at this slip of a girl, who faced them all in steady defiance, her trust in her father, herself and their invention un shaken and -unfaltering. "You, Mr. Jenkins," she said, ad dressing one of. the engineers, "are yourself a scientist and an experi mentalist. You of all present know how easy it is for a tiny mistake to rob delicate work of definite result." There was a note of appeal ia her voice that reached them all. As if with one accord they rushed forward, grasping her hand and sur rounding her father, giving them words of encouragement. It was the gruff voice of U gfil eT2J vv' ' s - I m -J .-! ffl 1"A vm A - First Experiment Is a Failure.' admiral which aroused them ncwed action. "Pshaw. Bill! to rc Thafs nothing." he growled. "Here! We've got more plates cast. Throw another on, and give it a try-out. Wake up. man! AVake up! We've got to.make it go!" Jenkins and two others rushed to the adjoining room and brought in a sec ond slab of metal, and the old Inven tor, giving himself a shake as if pull ing back from the very vortex or de spair, with trembling hands placed the sheet of insulation and made the new connections with the plate. "Norm," he almost whispered, "you look it over and turn the current on this time. . Somehow my eyes seem to have gone back on me." Again they watched from a distance the steady movements of the assistant. who without a tremor threw on the current, held it in leash, and directed it as if within her hand she held the clutch of a friend. Once more they saw the metal cool, the sprays turned on. and then came a dull, grinding, riving sound, and a column of dust shot up into the air and bellowed out over the rmm. They saw her fall back unconscious as if from some sudden shock, and instinctively sprang to her aid. In mortal fear that some disaster had overtaken her, some unknown in jury from that apparatus whose voltage was as deadly as that which sweeps through a murderer's chair, they picked her up and carried her out into one of the draughting rooms and laid her limp form on a table. Her father in a burst of terrible anxiety tore open her corsage and ran his hand over her heart. "She's not dead!" he whispered, hoarsely. "She's been knocked out by a wild current or something I don't under stand." A long breath of relief encircled the room. Not until she recovered con sciousness and sat weakly up was the suspense mitigated. "Feel -better, little girl?" the old ad miral asked, and the others pressed forward with solicitous inquiries. She looked at them for a moment, regained her mental control, and an swered: "Yes, I'm all right now: but don't mind me.- What of the plate?" They smiled at one another as it dawned ujion them that the plate had been forgotten. It was manifestly un fair that she of all others should not share with them the first knowledge of what had been accomplished; so as a guard of honor they" supported ' nei ouck to wncre the cruel agent stood, and then oue and all started back with exclamations or amazement. The plate on which they were build ing their hopes had disappeared! Where the insulated tank which held it had reared its squatty length was now a ragged hole In the floor, bor dered by the slivered ends of twisted and shattered wood, and beneath this was a yawning hole several feet deep, broken electric wires, and the great slab of metal. Norma, as if the excitement of the discovery had acted as a tonic, re leased herself -from the supporting arms, walked to the shining - brass structure, and leaned against it. Brockton pulled off his cap and scratched his head in a puzzled way, and Jenkins removed the glasses from his nose and began nervously polish ing them. The other engineers gaped at each other, at the inventor and then back to the hole wherein to all appear ances was buried the thing on which they had built all. their hope. "Old Bill" Roberts stood by its edges, look ing down and examir'n the broken jF" $ ---.-., -- I r ILLUSTRATED wires, a picture of ienIexity or de spair. He came, back, and crowded throusn their midt, exanalnfngja con necticn and tracing oul 'one'of the: strands, and then stood in listless at-j titude, his brows drawn into' a frown, and his arms hanging loose and pendu-' Ions from his shoulders. The' time stretched into minutes, and Jenkins, and Norma, began a discussion, to which the others listened, striving to understand the phraseology of elec trical science, of .which many of them had little more than the- layman's knowledge. Suddenly a sharp cry came from the inventor. They looked to the other side of the room, whither-he had retreated, and Jioheld him jumping up and down like a madman. His lists were clenched and thrust into the air, where they opened c!tiv.iike and waved a tremolo of exciFeuient. "'I've got it!' he scrramed. "I've solved it!'' They drew back from -him, fearing that failure had loosened his brain; but he rushed through the group, ex citedly calling for men to repair the break. The admiral, unused to his periods of enthusiasm, stared at him blankly, hi lower jaw unconsciously dropping until his mouth yawned in cavernous suspense. In his mind nothing but insanity could account for this outburst. Norma. Vm the other hand, laid a restraining hand on his, arm and said: "Father, what's the matter?- What "We've been working in the dark!" he answered vehemently, and then with the jubilation of a. boy buttin a calmer tone continued: "By an ac cident we have discovered powers in our combination of electricits and metallurgy that we have not dreamed of. and which, if we can control them, make the resistant armor we came down here to manufacture as useless as a wocden hull!" The admiral suddenly dropped his bulk to a stcol. "Good God!" he gasped, "are you mad?" Norma, like, one frcm whose eyes a hoodwink has been suddenly removed, and appearing almost to have read her father's raind.jiut herhand out to his shoulder and looked at him searching ly. A slow grin of great exultation swept over the ican ' old face into which she peered, drove the wrinkles into the corners of the eyes' and a mass of radiating furrows round the mouth. 'You've guessed it," he said, and then tnmed to the admiral. "Brockton, you don't know what that hole meant; but in an hour from now I'm going to show you. .That is. Norma, my as sistant, and I will." Then in a sudden frenzy for work he askod them all to leave until he sent for them, and they, wondering and speculating on his next endeavor, obeyed. Only the workmen, who had descended into the cavity and were preparing to hoist the plate and mold, and the admiral, by special invitation, remained. The clang of hammers re sounded hollowly through the room as the timbers beneath the floor were shored up by the carpenters; then came the setting of another and lar ger tank than th; one which had been so unexpectedly driven into the earth. The smaller plates which had been in tended only for experimental purposes were exhausted, and therefore they iad nothing on which to operate save two immense castings weighing many tons. Wido sliding doors rolled back, and workmen from the foundry, with straining muscles and clinging toes, slowly pushed in low-wheeled cars on which rested the huge pieces of metal. A steel crane projected its ungainly arm. reached slowly down, and in a Titanic grasp picked up one piece, moved it into position over the new bed. and deposited it in a great basin whose material indicated that it would be able to withstand any heat. The admiral in boyish exuberance would have thrown wide the door; but the investor, remembering the other contretemps. forbade. The latter busied himself for a few minutes in his storehouse, and returned with a sheet of peculiar insulation which was of hi3 own invention, almost Inde structible by heat, and a resistant to any form of radioactivity, which he placed with great care on top of the huge plte. The second plate was lowered sauarelv on ton of this. clamped for additional security, and the wornmen dismissed. The connec tions were made in identically the same way Ui in the previous test, ex cept that one electrical apparatus was attached to the upper plate above the insulation and the other to the one beneath. Brockton, seeing that the currents were about to be applied, backed off Into the corner, until stopped by the farthermost partition, fro be coxTiNrnD.) The Living Present. He that hath so many causes of joy, aud so great, is very much in love with sorrow and peevishness, who loses all these pleasures, and, chooses to sit down upon his little handful of thorns. Enjoy the blessings of this day. if God sends them; and the evils of it bear patiently and sweetly;' for this day only is ours, we are dead to yesterday, and we are not yet born to the mor row. But if we look abroad and bring into one day's thoughts the evil of. many, certain and uncertain, wha will Tte and what will never & eat load will be as intolerable aa it unreasooabl. Joremy Tlcr. 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